Pay no attention to the Google street view vehicle that captured your dong. Or at least, some dong. To be fair though, there are probably a lot of dongs on that street.

I spent the morning taking a ride in a hot air balloon. That's a unique perspective on the sky, even if you fly in airplanes a lot. Highly recommend it. I've been skydiving the past couple years but think I want to hang out in the sky longer. Might have to take up paragliding or one of the other gliding spots. I don't suppose I'd find much there, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be fun to explore. In '15 or '16 I want to go wingsuit flying over Hawaii from one of their dropzones.

I don't think Microsoft should stop Surface at all.

It has extreme promise to vastly exceed the loses it has already accumulated, and I think Microsoft should strive to hit the 10Billion a year loss threshold by 2020.

I know Microsoft can do it, the technology they provide to the world can easily match $10 Billion in losses by 2016, but only if they hunker down, and get to work.

Like that scene from The Fifth Element? I'd post a link but I find it amusing that if you search youtube for "That scene from the 5th element", it's the second link.

Works very well with the source builds of OpenWRT.

The WDR4300 hardware and software with the WDR4300 present one with a verifiably secure wireless system, that is also correctable if it is not.

That is why I use it.

my word brain is running behind by a generation.

I have an R6300 (much less expensive, 90 percent of the power) and routinely saturate our 802.11N channels using DD-WRT, including to the outside world (connected via Google Fiber, which includes its own router, but a router that's significantly less cool). Before we had GF, we used the DD-WRT QoS features heavily and it was absolutely perfect.

The router is handsome, has been rock solid and running strong for many months now, and only cost $100 on sale at a Best Buy retail store. Prices may reach even lower now, particularly when sales are on.

In that case, you're not running file sync software. You're running a file transformation program.

The same thing would happen to Java files if you had a file transformation program that removed curly braces.

Oh that's an easy problem to solve -- you just require the user to store their key in a keystore that makes sure you could get at it if you ever want to decrypt their E-Mail. The vast majority of the users would never realize that completely eliminates the security they were looking for when they decided to use encryption in the first place. If you really need an excuse (which you don't,) you could make a nice shiny feature like the ability to decrypt your mail from any machine on the internet.

In otherwards, you can't make billions off of the infrastructure storing liquid hydrogen, billions off launch pad construction and maint contracts and most of all, nothing can go boom sp, instead of having to buy insurance and possibly building TWO in case of launch failure, there just isn't any good money....I mean good science in that or any idea that doesn't use rockets.

Rockets=The Chinese were doing it long before we were and somehow nobody gets it that it is old hat.

I told everyone this the week after the reactor detonated.

I got labeled a crack pot, a troll and a fear mongering ignorant ranter.

I also said TEPCO is lying and so is the Japanese government that everything was contained.

But now that they admit it, it is OK.

Why these people are not immediately arrested, and prosecuted is beyond me.

The entire TEPCO board should be prosecuted, arrested and jailed. No need for a trail as they have publicly admitted they comitted a crime.

Funnily enough, I got the following story about a pilot once; a fairly new skydiver found himself in the unusual position of being the last one off the plane, so he asked the pilot if he wanted him to close the door on his way out. The door's usually a sliding affair and difficult to close from the outside. The pilot explained that this wasn't necessary because after the last skydiver left the plane he'd light his cigar, trim the controls and walk back to close the door himself. Of course, you can actually do that in a plane -- it's not like you're likely to hit anything at 13000 feet.

Indeed! That's why my suggestion was that instead of airbags we have sharp deadly AIRSPIKES! If you're in an accident, the airsplke stabs you in the face! I'll bet you'll pay some serious attention driving, THEN! If not now, then in a couple of generations once the people who don't pay enough attention to avoid getting an airspike in the face have weeded themselves out of the gene pool!

I was using the last pre-MS version of the client, which had the "ring all speakers" option. I have several sound devices in my computer, and when my headphones are plugged in, they on their own don't ring loud enough to hear an incoming call. Luckily my HDMI monitor has speakers that don't get any use, except that Skype could make them ring with the "ring all speakers" option. They were loud enough to hear calls. That was until about an hour ago.

My client just stopped working, booted me off the network, and after messing with it for a while, I finally got the message that my Skype version is too old, and that I either get the new crippled client, or I can't Skype at all.

Many people have petitioned to have the "ring all speakers" re-implemented. It worked great. But Microsoft's answer has been: Fuck you, we will never do that. Stop pleading, we don't care. It didn't bother me too much until today. I just thought I'd stick with version 5.10.116 forever. Oh well. So thanks, Skype, for making my life shittier today. Boy am I happy I pre-paid a year of unlimited Skype Out!

It really depends on what you want to do. If you're trying to wring the last iota of performance out of an algorithm, then understanding TLB misses and cache protocols can be useful. Even accessing RAM can be an order of magnitude faster or slower, depending on what you do. So, maybe a class on microprocessor design?

OTOH, I find that an ability to understand functional programming, recursion and data structures is very useful. They're the sort of things I quiz people on when I'm looking for really strong developers.

Alan